Family

About the Book

Family is not just a memoir concerning the author's own family. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the complex relationships within this human structure: the sharing and the loyalty, the strength and the weakness, the ebb and the flow of love, the laughter and the tears along with the joys and the sorrows found amongst most kith and kin. There is no perfect family in the world; however, a family is certainly (or should be) a sanctuary (and a bulwark) against the blows of life that will come.

About the Author

The author is a native of (and lives in) Rhode Island. She served three years in the Women's Army Corps during the Korean War. She is a charter member of Women in the Service for the American Memorial Foundation in D.C. While in Tokyo, she attended Sophia University and is also a graduate of Rhode Island College and the University of Rhode Island. She has served her community as President of The Burrillville Historical and Preservation Society, Director of the Burrillville Historic Districts Commission, Board Member of the Pascoag Public Library and a Board Member of the League of Rhode Island Historical Societies from which she received the John Nicholas Brown award for exceptional contributions to the preservation of Rhode Island Heritage.

Joyce is also the author of Let Us Speak of Pleasant Things and of Warm Places in the Heart, published in 2004.